COURT 11 REVOLUTIONARY LEGALITY

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TELEGRAM TO THE KAZAN CHEKA
Kazan
Provincial Cheka
Copy to Provincial Executive Committee
Copy to Provincial Committee of the RCP

1. III. 1920

Sofiya Mikhaylovna Ivanova, widow of the chairman of the Tolstoy Society, complains that she is being wronged and that they are inciting violence against her. 
Check [this]. Immediately cease these outrages. Inform me by telegraph [of] the execution [of this order] and the name of the person conducting the investigation, and [send] the details by mail. [137]

Lenin.


ON TRIALS OF MINORS.

4 MARCH 1920.

a.
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NOTES ON THE DRAFT DECREE.

1) The theory of demarcation is inadequate.
2) Courts and prisons corrupt [them].
3) Who knows the psychology of children? judges or expert examination?
4) Special institutions?
5) Speculators and others? Recidivism?

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b.

CORRECTIONS TO THE DRAFT.

1) Commission the People's Commissariat of Justice, in agreement with the People's Commissariat of Health and the People's Commissariat of Education and the Central Statistical Administration, to work out forms of reporting on each case of involving minors and examining cases concerning them.
2) Commission the People's Commissariat of Education and the People's Commissariat of Health to intensify activity in the organization [of] therapeutic-educational institutions for defective minors.